BACKGROUND Word retrieval during verbal fluency tasks invokes both automatic and controlled cognitive processes. A distinction has been made between the generation of words clusters and switches between such clusters on verbal fluency tasks. Clusters, defined by the reporting of contiguous words that constitute semantic or phonemic subcategories, are thought to reflect relatively automatic proc...

this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

the objective of this paper ts to investigate into the lexical collocation in persian language. to achieve this goal , the existing literature will be reviewed, so as to put forward the relation between lexical collocation and the theory of semantic fields

Researchers stated that learning and applying certain set of lexical bundles of native lecturers by non-native lecturers would help students improve their proficiency through incidental vocabulary input. The present study shed light on the lexical bundles in hard science lectures used by Native and Non-native lecturers in international universities with the main purpose of analyzing the structu...

The study aimed to shed light on the use of gesture in resolving lexical ambiguity employed by TEFL students. To this end, 60 intermediate Iranian learners, studying at Kish Way Language School in Iran were recruited. The participants were randomly put into two experimental groups and one control group. Both of the experimental groups received the same teaching approach, i.e. teaching homonyms ...

Recently, LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) based on SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) is proposed to overcome the problems of polysemy and homonym in traditional lexical matching. However, it is usually criticized as with low discriminative power for representing documents although it has been validated as with good representative quality. In this paper, SVD on clusters is proposed to improve th...

This paper reports an empirical study to automatically evaluate the ability of T-PEG (Hong and Ong 2009) to extract joke templates by providing it with a corpus of punning riddles produced by another system, STANDUP (Manurung et al. 2008). This setup allows us to compare the extracted templates against the underlying data structures used by STANDUP in generating the corpus. In our setup, T-PEG ...

We have developed a word sense disambiguation(WSD) system for Bengali language and applied the system to get correct lexical choice in Bengali-Hindi machine translation. We are not aware of any existing system for Bengali WSD. Since there is no sense annotated Bengali corpus or sufficient amount of parallel corpus for Bengali-Hindi language pair, we had to use an unsupervised approach. We use a...